Today's sightings
* Second highest reserve count of Shoveler ever! - 265 noted today
* Highest count of Gadwall so far this winter- 98
Holden Tower
The Dumbles (area of salt pasture and saltmarsh)
Lapwing 4000+
Dunlin 2000+
Golden Plover 1200+
Barnacle Goose 160
Raven 1 on a corpse
Bewick's Swan 30 feeding in pools
Wigeon 160
Tack Piece (freshwater wet grassland, scrapes and seasonal floods)
Wigeon 1000+
Teal 450
Pintail 300+
Pochard 180
Ruff 9
Black-tailed Godwit 140+
Redshank 20+
Curlew 30+
Dunlin, Lapwing, Golden Plover (in thousands and very mobile)
Peregrine 1
Shoveler 54
Martin Smith Hide
Snipe 1
South Lake
Shoveler 92
Gadwall 44
Great Crested Grebe 1
Zeiss Hide
Avocet 4
Teal 1800+
Also noted today-Short-eared Owl which was heading for Middle Point at high tide. It was mobbed by a Rock Pipit.
